It all began on Good Friday 1955, when aged ten, Junior Nash and Dunstan Tucker swam
each way across the bay defying the freshness of the Atlantic in spring and thereby
became full members of The Cove Shivering Club. The rules were simple: you don't
piss in the water and you don't bring a woman.

Years later the club members reconvene to decide how to deal with a rule-breaking
woman, and indeed with modernity in general.

With its maze of comic twists and turns, The Cove Shivering Club brilliantly demonstrates
Michael Curtin's wicked sense of the humorous absurd and his deeply affectionate
understanding of the most human of moral frailties.

Reviews:

‘Brilliantly and warmly done… a major discovery.’

Kaleidoscope, BBC Radio Four

‘Michael Curtin is one of Ireland’s national treasures; a superb comic novelist who
deserves to be far better known… Curtin’s hilarity is shot through with impeccably
judged moments of poignancy, even tragedy.’

Sunday Express

‘Sparkling and hilarious, full of characters and lines that lovers of Michael Curtin
expect… very funny and very, very human.’